68

US 68

Freeway bypassing Springfield to the west, currently extending from a point two miles south of I-70 to the Champaign/Clark County Line.
Northbound Southbound Type Description
Northbound Southbound Type Description

Fairfield Pike

At-grade intersection This is the point where 68 widens from two-lane to a four-lane facility. It is also the last non-controlled access intersection until the Champaign County line

70 EAST

Columbus

Cloverleaf

70 WEST

Dayton

40 4 EAST

Springfield

Cloverleaf The oddities in this interchange's design show up best in the aerial image linked above. They all appear to have been forced by the local geography and pre-existing street network.

40 4 WEST

Donnelsville

41

Diamond

334

334 EAST

Hybrid

Southbound traffic has cloverleaf-style entrance/exit ramps. Northbound traffic has diamond-style ramps. Weird.

The other interchange in the photo, 1/4-mile to the east along 334, is with the original US 68 right-of-way

334 WEST

County Line Road

Diamond The limited access portion of 68 used to end here ten years ago. Sometime before August 2005, the 4-lane highway was completed a further half-mile to the northeast to the original RoW. The old highway now ends at a signalled at-grade intersection, after which US 68 reverts to 2 lanes on its old alignment into Urbana.

Environmental studies were performed a few years ago on a northward extension of this freeway, passing west of Urbana with interchanges at US 36 and OH 29 before merging back into the existing 2-lane road north of Urbana. The studies must have been favorable, for ODOT will be spending $2.1 million in 2005 to actually design the bypass. Given how low the project keeps scoring against other Miami Valley projects on the TRAC, I can't begin to guess when pavement will be laid.